Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
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A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
7
Pumice is the only rock that floats on water.
14
A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
15
For a high school science fair project, 17-year-old Michio Kaku built a particle accelerator in his parent's garage that was able to generate a magnetic field 20,000 times greater than the Earth's and produce collisions powerful enough to create antimatter.
34
If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
117
If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
67
The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
65